Word: shored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...door. Most tenants work in San Francisco and commute by car and-in some instances-boat. Rents at The Cove range from $185 for a one-bedroom apartment, to $525 for three bedrooms. On the outskirts of Los Angeles, the Penthouse apartments hover over the Pacific shore line, offer tenants a beach, a Gay Nineties-style billiard room, and an acre of terraced gardens with olive, orange and lemon trees...
...military observers on the shore, though, the scene was less a picture of the future than a promise of a new and better landing craft for today's troubles. The Bell Aerosystem's Hydro-skimmer was built for the Navy, but it is only one of a score of air-cushion vehicles now being developed for military and commercial usage by such old-hand defense contractors as Republic Aviation, Grumman Aircraft, General Dynamics and Martin-Marietta...
Loitering for Nuggets. While countries conditioned to a tourist economy admit that the new wave does not wash up much money on the shore, local officials profess not to care. Said the manager of an Athens hotel: "They never dispute the bills, as the Germans and French do, and they're less haughty than the English." Adds a grateful longtime resident of Rome: "They don't gripe like the oldsters do. They are prepared to be adaptable and anxious not to miss a thing." Remarkably enough, they rarely...
Last winter, amid official predictions of a mounting trade deficit and some foreign talk of devaluation, speculation against the lira gripped European currency markets. The panic subsided when the U.S., the International Monetary Fund and European central banks granted $1.2 billion in credits to shore up the Italian economy. In the last year, the lira has gained slightly against the pound, lost only 4/10 of 1% to the dollar. But Italy's economy still faces a tough and crisis-ridden fall. Whether it survives in good shape depends largely on whether it can check its upward wage spiral...
...three-story, air-conditioned hotel in Alexandria. They raised some 12,000 flags over lampposts and public squares, built 200 triumphal arches, and draped buildings with hundreds of banners car rying slogans of Arab solidarity. As special beach cabins went up on the golden sands of the Mediterranean shore, other workmen dusted and polished furniture and chandeliers in the vast Muntazah Palace and tended 325 acres of gardens...